Chapter 1: The Li Family Brothers

In the motherland in the 80s, the spring breeze of reform had just blown, and the old Li family could be regarded as enjoying the dividends of socialist progress and development. Peasants, workers, students, and businessmen, although they are still not rich, are developing in a good direction.

The peasants are fed, the wages of the workers are raised, the students can take the college entrance examination, and the merchants can do business. The two brothers of the old Li family, the eldest Li Ziqiang, dropped out of school early, and at the beginning he took over the old man of the family to find a job as an ordinary technician in the factory. But this Li Ziqiang is not a peaceful master. Later, he secretly hid from the old man and quit his relatively stable job. It's kind of going to the sea.

At that time, it was a seller's market, and there were buyers when there were goods, and there were many so-called unfortunate masters, and a dealer who resold clothes in those years earned money in a month was even equivalent to the income of ordinary workers for half a year or even a year. Li Ziqiang can be regarded as taking advantage of the spring breeze of reform to make a small fortune. I poured a lot of clothing supplies from other places through various channels, and opened a grocery store in the town, which was a cooperative with more goods, and it was also a good mix in the context of the times at that time.

The second child, Li Ziwen, is a responsible person, after graduation, he worked as a teacher in a primary school, and the teacher's salary in the early 80s was about 50 yuan. It was also a decent job at the time. Every time Li Ziwen passes by the big brother's store, his good big brother always asks himself long and short questions on the grounds of probing the old man's tone, and by the way, he brags about the strange things he saw outside, and he says: Share life experience. No, today Li Ziwen rode his Phoenix brand bicycle to bring some food to Li Ziqiang. In the 80s, our country had just opened up, and bicycles were a scarce thing, and they were not cheap. Riding his own Phoenix brand bicycle, Li Ziwen can be described as high-spirited.

In the eighties, our society was just starting, and industrial products such as bicycles had high production costs and less supply. The average person can't afford it, let alone buy it. After all, young people who don't have a little vanity, and they don't have an object, only after experiencing that era, will they understand this so-called "show-off on the bicycle".

At that time, the monthly salary standard was generally dozens of yuan, for example, ordinary workers in state-owned factories were generally only thirty or forty yuan, and teachers in middle schools were about fifty yuan, of course, there were more professional titles. Because the income level is low, the price is also low, and the price at that time was not our current 10 yuan or 100 yuan; Rather, it is calculated in terms of how many angles and how many points.

At that time, eating a breakfast for one or two cents, because a steamed bun was only 5 cents, even if it was a bowl of vegetable noodle soup with fried tofu and fried spinach, it was only two cents, and a bowl was definitely full. This car cost Li Ziwen 150 yuan at that time. It can be described as a luxury car. Riding his own phoenix 28 bars, he set off to his eldest brother Li Ziqiang.

Nothing else, the old man steamed some meat buns at noon, and he didn't want to send it to this disobedient eldest son, so he could only run by himself. When his eldest brother and the old man meet, they quarrel, which can be described as incompatible. Father and son were thinking about each other again. This is a pain in the face. Sandwiched between these two people, from time to time he has to make the old man angry because of Li Ziqiang, and let himself be implicated. At that time, the total output value of the textile industry accounted for almost half of the city's total industrial output value, and his parents both worked in textile factories.

The old man hopes that his eldest brother will inherit his father's business, and his eldest brother has been an ambitious master since he was a child. I scoffed at the old man's wishful thinking, not only did I not take it seriously. I usually brainwash myself, saying that it is wise for me to resign and go to the sea, and you should also learn from the big brother, there is no future in work and so on. Li Ziwen naturally understood in his heart that this was the eldest brother who wanted him to follow him, firstly, it was indeed for his own good, after all, in the early days of reform and opening up, no one knew where the future would go, and it would definitely not hurt to make more money.

Second, the two brothers can take care of each other, after all, although the teacher's job was decent at that time, the income was really insufficient, and it was okay to support the family, but compared with the self-employed, it was obviously not enough for others to see, and it was impossible to say that he was not moved and not envious when he watched his eldest brother's work. After all, who has a grudge against money.

I also have the heart to go to the sea to follow my eldest brother, but the old man in the family is the biggest obstacle for Li Ziwen. If the old man is angry, he won't be able to go home at all, and he will have to wander away. When his eldest brother quit his job and went to sea, the old man just disagreed. For this reason, his good big brother had a lot of trouble with the old man, until now Li Ziqiang has been regarded as a small achievement, and he has made a little money, and the old man still doesn't give a good face when he goes back.

Li Ziwen thought in his heart, the more he thought about it, the more awkward he became, continue to be a teacher, the work is stable and decent, and the old man can rest assured, but as the saying goes, there is no comparison and no harm, and the good big brother blows the wind in his ears every day, and he gradually has the heart to resign and do some small business. Let's not talk about Li Ziwen's rich inner activities.

This trip is not close, and you have to pass through the embankment from the house to the town, which was used to prevent the canal from flooding in the early years. For as long as I can remember, there is no water left in the canal. Now it is natural to become the path from the village to the town. Small dirt road with potholes, surrounded by locust trees. It's like a greenhouse, and it's hard to get the sun in during the day. At that time, cremation was not yet popular, and it was more for the convenience of the countryside and the like, and as far as the eye could see, large and small graves were lined up on the roadside, and from time to time there were sounds in the woods that I didn't know what birds were calling out, which was very strange. It's noon, and at night, I usually bypass the embankment, even if it's an extra twenty or thirty minutes. Although I didn't believe in any ghosts, ghosts, and gods, there were no street lights at that time, and the path on the embankment was full of potholes. So there's nothing urgent about it, and I still won't walk a road at night, of course, there are no major problems during the day. To make a long story short, after riding for about an hour, I finally arrived at the sales point of Li Ziqiang in the town.